On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:31:22PM +0000, David Starks-Browning wrote: >On Thursday 14 Feb 02, Peter Buckley writes: >> I agree about the healthy skepticism- this was obviously a false >> positive from the very start, but I don't think the faq addresses this >> type of false positive. > >Addressing virus alerts in the FAQ has always been a dilemma for me. >I do not like to give the advice "disable your antivirus software" or >"turn off checking for C:\cygwin". It seems to me that such action >could be exploited. > >Should the FAQ say something like "do not bother the list with virus >alerts unless you have independently verified that it is not a false >positive"? This would apply to all Cygwin software, package archives, >DLLs, ... > >There was a special problem with Cygwin Setup because NAI/McAfee would >hang the system when opening tar.gz archives. Maybe this is not a >problem anymore, and can be removed from the FAQ. Or the advice could >be simplified to be "update your antivirus software or replace it with >another vendor's product". Of course not everyone can do that, but >that's not our problem. > >Thanks for your opinions.
My opinion is that common-sense practices don't belong in the FAQ. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
